The Hon. Hesha Withanage Ankumbura Arachchi
Hesha Withanage Ankumbura Arachchi asked whether the Ministry could extend regulation of Justices of the Peace beyond appointments made after 2025 to review all existing appointees, given concerns that many past appointments were political and that the total number may approach one million. He proposed a robust verification mechanism to confirm qualifications, capacity, and authenticity of current JPs, citing difficulties in verifying JP stamps on documents at the Department of Immigration and Emigration.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Minister, thank you for the detailed reply. My first supplementary: You state regulation began in 2025. Historically, appointments were political. There are said to be close to a million JPs. Can the Ministry establish a process to review all existing appointees—not only those appointed after 2025—to verify qualifications and capacity? For example, at the Department of Immigration and Emigration, documents are stamped by persons as JPs and it is difficult to verify authenticity. Can we institute a robust verification mechanism for all current JPs?
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Cite as: The Hon. Hesha Withanage Ankumbura Arachchi. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 March 2026. No. 23376. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5078